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The Gang as an American Enterprise

By: Felix M. Padilla

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The Gang as an American Enterprise

By: Felix M. Padilla

The Diamonds are a Chicago Street gang whose members are second-generation Puerto Rican youths. For Felix Padilla the young men who join the Diamonds have made a logical choice. The gang is an alternative and dependable route to emotional support, self-respect, material goods, and upward mobility. Although Padilla shares the same ethnic background as the gang members and also grew up in a Chicago barrio, gaining the trust of the Diamonds was not easy. But eventually he was able to get close enough to the members to interview and observe them. Padilla shows us the process behind the decision to join the Diamonds. From early childhood, boys develop positive images of the gang. They realize that the dominant culture promises mobility, but that their paths to that mobility are blocked. By joining a gang they can creatively oppose the dominant culture. Padilla does not paint a romanticized picture of the Diamonds. Some members come to understand that when they sell drugs, they benefit the gang's leaders and suppliers more than themselves. Further, they recognize that the gang is also subject to problems of domination and inequality. Padilla shows that though the Diamonds are sometimes violent, they are not psychopaths. While we need not approve of what they do, Padilla urges us to understand it as a rational response to the doors these young men see closed around them.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813518067

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The Gang as an American Enterprise

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Struggle of Latina University Students

By: Felix M. Padilla

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Struggle of Latina University Students

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First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415912938

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I Want to be Like the Mango Tree

By: Felix M. Padilla

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I Want to be Like the Mango Tree

By: Felix M. Padilla

Compares a child's development to the stages of growth of a mango tree, thereby encouraging children to value timeless verities like belonging, family, friends, community wisdom, and happiness."--Publisher's CIP.

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Encouraging Cultural Literacy Libros

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0971086001

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9780971086005

Book's by Felix M. Padilla

The Gang as an American Enterprise

The Gang as an American Enterprise

The Gang as an American Enterprise

The Gang as an American Enterprise

Struggle of Latina University Students

Struggle of Latina University Students

I Want to be Like the Mango Tree

I Want to be Like the Mango Tree

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